I respect the complaints against AI because of the corporate ownership model. It’s very capital intensive, which lends itself to centralization in the hands of VC backed companies. (Even tho DeepSeek et al exist) In a better world, these would be publicly funded megaprojects à la CERN

“When Christ calls a man, He bids him come and die”

Do you plan to go kill people and get killed personally, or would you like someone else to do it for you

They cannot comprehend a good man genuinely trying to help his neighbors, and his people genuinely grieving his death. “and the Light shineth in darkness, and darkness comprehendeth it not.”

“professionals talk logistics”

“In a world too often governed by corruption and arrogance, it can be difficult to stay true to one's philosophical and literary principles”

If they were going to escalate to “mowing down protestors with automatic fire, thousands dead, piles of bodies in the street” anyway - why haven’t they yet? Presumably there’s a reason

most unrealistic detail is their posts weren’t rejected for having the wrong X-Origin-Universe header set

varies by who’s saying it yes but to me one of the definitional questions is “do you want a dictatorship of the proletariat or do you not want a dictatorship of anybody”

Firebombing a Walmart presumably

I’m skeptical of “high coordination” tbh

If you actually thought the end was coming hoarding ammo in a solitary compound is not the way, anyways

Given the recent MN assassin impersonating an officer, it’s only a matter of time before someone fires on these unidentified men claiming to be ICE in self defense

The resulting court cases will be interesting, to say the least

Logistics Rules Everything Around Me

yeah like, this is bad, but mostly because of what it indicates about the Trump admin, but less because of what it indicates about enlisted personnel

All hard problems are coordination problems in disguise

That doesn’t mean it’ll work

An American military dictatorship will not hold power for long, if it even manages to successfully consolidate power in the first place

Langston Hughes already got this one covered